Riverdale Press: Riverdale fencer crowned nation’s best with a blade

A little love from the hometown papers…

By Jason Eisenberg

Local native and Riverdale Country School alum Tim Morehouse continued his climb toward the top of the fencing world by claiming his first individual national championship last week.

After bringing home a silver medal as part of the American entry in the saber team competition at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, Morehouse’s personal streak of success continued at the U.S. Fencing Summer National Championship, where he pulled off an improbable comeback victory in the final bout to snatch the gold medal.

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And also another article…
Riverdale Alumni Shine at U.S. National Fencing Championship

The Best Fencing Party at Nationals? Yury’s Hall of Fame Celebration at Nellya!

Nellya Fencing Club was the home of a celebration to honor new Hall of Fame Member Coach Yury Gelman.     Members of the fencing community turned out in droves to celebrate and pay their respects to Coach Gelman.

The party was a surprise and Yury’s wife and daughter flew down to Atlanta along with his student Olympian Keeth Smart just for the occasion.  Also in attendance were the Jacobson clan, Ed Korfanty, Kurt Aichele, Dagmara Wozniak, Ariania Klinkov, the Douville clan, Terrence Lasker, Akhi-Spencer-El,  Peter Westbrook, Don Anthony and host  Maestro Arkady Burdan amongst others.

I have to say that the best two celebrations I have ever attended were at Nellya Fencing Club…who knew fencing clubs could be so fun for events?